Journalist, crime fiction writer and biographer

Recent journalism

Published: 9 September 2019 Well, it's a good thing the 93-year-old Queen Elizabeth is robust. When the media aren't majoring on her son Andrew's friendship with a now dead paedophile, they're featuring endless stories about her daughter-in-law...

The Government's job is to stand up for law and order and innocent victims, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 2 September 2019 Those of us Leavers who had despaired of seeing any backbone in the British Government’s dealings with the EU now...

McKee bravely shone a light on sectarian violence in Northern Ireland — then became one of its victims Published: 1 September 2019 Though I’ve known many people bereaved or injured during 25 years of covering Northern Ireland as a journalist,...

Brexiteers are one group who've been dismissed and given the silent treatment, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 26 August 2019 I was surprised on Saturday that the profoundly intolerant Irish Times had published an article by Maria Steen with...

Without Operation Banner, there could have been a full-scale civil war in Ireland, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: August 29, 2019 Former soldier John Hutchinson said at the Lisburn event on Saturday commemorating the 50th anniversary of...

Since 1993 Ruth has written seriously and/or frivolously for almost every national newspaper in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom and appears frequently on radio and television in the Republic of Ireland, the UK and on the BBC World Service. Ruth describes herself as British-Irish and is comfortable with being culturally both Irish and English. See her essay TheOutsider published in Britain and Ireland: Lives Entwined II (British Council, September 2006).

Ruth was shortlisted by the Crime Writers’ Association for the John Creasey Award for the best first novel and twice for the Last Laugh award for the funniest crime novel of the year. Murdering Americans won the Last Laugh award at CrimeFest, Bristol, 2008.